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Science 7 May 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5672, p. 809
DOI: 10.1126/science.304.5672.809d
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The Thai Ministry of Public Health and the International AIDS Society say they'll scrounge for funds to help the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)--which has a research budget of more than $32 billion--send U.S. government scientists to a major AIDS conference. In a 3 May letter to HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson, conference organizers decry an HHS edict to limit to 50 the number of researchers, mostly from the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who can attend the July meeting in Bangkok. That's down from 236 at the 2002 International AIDS meeting in Barcelona, Spain. The cut is reportedly a penalty for the heckling Thompson received in Barcelona (Science, 23 April, p. 499).

"Please let us know if there is anything we can do ... to help finance these researchers," reads the letter from the two groups. The offer--to which Thompson has not yet replied--is one that "we ought to find a little embarrassing," says Judy Auerbach of the American Foundation for AIDS Research in Washington, D.C.

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